Folk Culture

A little girl is dead, and the housekeeper has been brought in for questioning. Or, at least, we think she’s...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Plagiarism is constantly...

Taken on its own, the number is astonishing. According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S....

There may be, quite simply, no place in America less Jewish than Brigham Young University’s football stadium on Yom Kippur....

No psychiatric treatment has attracted quite as much cash and hype as psychedelics have in the past decade. Articles about...

For all the upheaval that followed the overturn of Roe v. Wade, it did not dramatically change the most basic...

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In 2021, Israel bombed Gaza for 11 days in a campaign known as Operation Guardian of the Walls. At the...

In 2008, Yahya Sinwar—then an inmate in Israel’s Eshel Prison—developed a brain tumor.  An Israeli surgeon operated on his head...